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Winter= Sean John Unforgivable, Like the heavy dense aroma, use sparingly

Summer= Hugo Element, like the light floral yet subtle woodsy aroma ( it makes me fall in love with myself again and again).

However on days just kicking around the house or running errands I love Crabtree & Evelynn LaSource body Lotion, gives off a wonderful light aroma.

On a side note- my first bottle of cologne was Old sPice (white bottle with a peg stopper) in 6th grade from an older girl a few doors down, a few weeks later she greeted me at her door in a see through nightie and I could see what looked like to me a cluster of Daddy Long Leg spiders between her legs (pubic hair I now know)..and I thought to myself "that's really weird", and ran home to mommy.

I liked Lagerfeld for its powderyness on nice boys, but not on me. Anyway, doesn't smell like it used to... ? The old smell make me want to fuck the guy wearing it - thinking I'd get a passive pussyboy but knowing anything could happen, finally.

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx

Anyone say Drakkar yet? Well, I like 2 that are getting just as old at this point. I like Curve and Truth. I have to say I've never had so many comment on how nice I smell when I wear Curve than with any other cologne.

I have a friend who can't wear fragrances. For some reason, they don't mix well with his body chemistry. They end up smelling bad.

When I was at one of my granddaughter's baseball games, one of the dad's said "who's wearing Beautiful?" He went on to explain that one of his ex-girlfriends wore it. I like Estee Lauder, because the scents last.

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I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.-Clarence Darrow

"Many people, especially in the gay community, turn to oral sex as a safer alternative in the age of AIDS. And with HIV rates rising, people need to remember that oral sex is safer sex. It's a reasonable alternative."

I never figured out which cologne might sell me to other gay men. I know that with Quorum Yatagan Aramis or Azzaro AND a suit or grown up clothes - means that men are aware of my presence, like I'm marking my territory, and some woman are attracted.

The first girl I fell in love with in college wore expensive heavy classic perfumes and dressed in wild clothes from every era. Thats when I first noticed fragrance as a real treat and part of attraction.

Writing this, I know a few names of colognes that some of my exboyfriends wore but the memory is faint. I'd need to smell it again maybe to get a stronger emotional reaction. Body odors are more important than fragrance when it comes to actual lovers.

It will be a sad day when they outlaw scents in public - for me its a treat when I smell something beautiful on anyone - woman or man. And its nice to associate some smells with some people.

Yes i agree that lots of people settle on a poor match, or wear too much, or the wrong scent for the moment, and its not so nice to smell. But I'm a pervert so even that can sometimes be fun. Now that I'm a dirty old man I like to pick up on the fragrance "donts" on the young guys and gals around town.

I feel like a gay vampire cause I can smell wonderful fragrance every once in awhile on a young guy and clearly its the dude's natural body odour, sometimes mixed with washing power and or crappy colognes. There is this one on campus now who reaks of himself, with a top note of cigarettes - its perfect!

Our lists above show that its not about the expense, or classiness, (e.g. Creed, Guerlain, etc) its about the right fragrance on the right body at the right moment to be smelled by the ones who do think its very nice indeed.

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx

Speaking of Aramis, the first guy that plowed me up the ass, the lovely Doug S., in a fit of cocaine all-nighter frenzy, couldn't locate any lube (much less a condom -- who needs those?) so he used Aramis hand lotion as lube.

Going by my cd4 level at diagnosis and the timeline of raw fucks, I have to somewhat blame Aramis for my HIV infection -- that lotion obviously worked wonders on my love canal and opened up extra blood vessels -- plus the coke of course.

On the plus side I'd lusted after Doug S. for a good year, and since I was a mere 23 (yes ladies, I didn't get butt fucked until that late age... I know this is very difficult for some of you to believe) I really felt an acute sense of achievement.

Of course, I never ever had sex with Doug S. again and was consequently momentarily devastated, but he lives on in my body every day, and for that I'm ever so grateful to Aramis.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

I can only use unscented products due to allergy's . I hate elevators . I love my Aunt Cathy but she gets a warm wet wash cloth at my door to get the stink of whatever she rolled in off her before I let her near me .

"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

I prefer the scent of a day without a Hot Shower, after a good 45 min power workout , better than any ghastly fragrance, I always avoided any man that wore any kinda fragrance

Especially before sex. Pungent colognes and strong deodorants are such a turn off.

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."